Artsy Business Tips

I ran into my friend Cath Masi, owner of Ciara Obscura, in Trader Joe’s yesterday.  We got to talking business, and she shared this wonderful website with me:

Elsie Larson, of A Beautiful Mess, also offers a business e-course, for a super low price.  Info here:

For those of you in Southern California, here is an upcoming series of business courses for artists.  Tons of fantastic, invaluable info.  Taught by highly skilled professional artists (performance & fine), for only $15 a pop.  See you there!

http://www.awolsb.org

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

Jan 9, 2012  “Let’s Put On A Show! OMG! Now what do we do?” Julie McLeod   will share a check­list and time­line on how to put on a pro­duc­tion from con­cept to clean­ing up the dress­ing room. Julie was in the orig­i­nal Broad­way com­pany of West Side Story and pro­duced close to a hun­dred pro­duc­tions for her stu­dio, Dance Ware­house, and Santa Bar­bara Dance Alliance as their past Exec­u­tive Direc­tor. She is the founder/director of Art With­out Lim­its. Loca­tion: Rabobank 914 Carpin­te­ria St by the round­about on Mil­pas St.

Feb 13 “The Busi­ness of Show Busi­ness” Mar­sha Bai­ley of Women’s Eco­nomic Ven­tures will give guide­lines on busi­ness plans, bud­gets, and how to run your art form like a business.

Mar 12 “Copy­rights – Why can’t I just use it?” From why and how to copy­right to get­ting licens­ing and per­mis­sion to use other’s material. This will be a panel of experts cov­er­ing all art fields; visual, lit­er­ary, per­form­ing and media.

Apr 9 “Insur­ance? Who needs it? I do?”

Future work­shops will be held on; Keep­ing Finan­cial Records and Bud­gets, How to talk to a Gallery Owner, more on Mar­ket­ing, How to form a Non­profit, What is Fis­cal Sponsorship, Performance and Exhibit Venues and so much more.

Sug­ges­tions for addi­tional sub­jects are grace­fully received.

Wanna come to these events? Pop an email to info@sbstage.org to sign up. You may pay at the door. 

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One last one.  Superb business classes, consulting and networking.  Not just for artists, but anyone interested in growing or starting a business.  Targeted for women, but open to all genders.

http://www.wevonline.org